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We are going to host the main permaculture festival in Latvia on August 8.-11. 2024. So we are looking for helpful hand about daily routines in garden and doing the festival location - big tent making, wooden chairs and tables for participants, building new rocket massheater etc. We are open to all kind of creative ideas about designs from natural materials and musical/artistic performances in festival time.
Our home stead is located in small village Rogovka. We are here living just two womans: me - and my mother Daina. We both are taking care about 3ha land with permaculture garden, decorative plant collections, food forest, few ducks and hens, 3 pounds here etc. Our passion is organic and slow countryside living, where you can enyoj your own rythm of daily routines.
Our family project and hobby in one is to organise permaculture events, nature-based workshops and teach landscape design principles to our students. Our aim is to built a place for gadening school with it's own library and more expand the alternative agrotourism. Now we are on the way - doing everything by ourselves, step by step. Here the chores are very common rural area things - food harvesting, foraging, animal feeding, lawn moving, watering the plants, celebrating the local occasions, taking care about garden visitors and making photo/video content for blog. We are always openminded for fresh ideas and helpful hands for improving our permaculture paradise!
Types of help and learning opportunities
Art Projects
Help with Eco Projects
Teaching
Gardening
DIY and building projects
Animal Care
Creating/ Cooking family meals
Help around the house
Help with Computers/ Internet
UN sustainability goals this host is trying to achieve
Cultural exchange and learning opportunities
Near to our house is the culture events hall, where we sometimes are taking part in dekorating the rooms and village environment. We have a youth center, where is going on some cooking classes and they will be happy to share the room for new ideas. We are often going to plant nurseries and visiting other permaculture home steadings in Latvia. So everthing about organic gardening in Northern Europe and landscape planing we are sharing with our Workawayers. We'll be happy about new knowledge about garden making and cooking from other countries. We are open to different type of art projects also - music, land art, graphic design, sewing or dance... The art of practical and creative rural living - that's all what we are doing here in Rogovka, because that make our lifes fullfilled with joy!
Help
We need a help for basic countryside jobs (watering and propagating plants, move the lawn, harvest the food and store it, feed the birds, take care about plantings and greenhouse, foraging etc.). We are organising several events in garden, so our tasks is to manage our social portals (Instagram, Facebook, Tik Tok) with new information and video content, prepare meals for visitors, guide them throught the homestead and take a part in different workshops for adults and kids. And third part of works is to build new eko - house for our visitors.
Languages
Languages spoken
English: Fluent
Latvian (Lettish): Fluent
Russian: FluentThis host offers a language exchange
I want to learn a Spanish language.
Accommodation
I have summer cottage with king size bed and a coach. Another place is mansard with hay bedding. Toilet and shower is outside and in main living house. We have outdoor and inside sauna. Kitchen also is in main living house and in outdoor summer kitchen house. If the weather is colder - there ir electric heater and extra blankets. We have clothes washing machine, but not the dryer. Electrisity is in every building. We have 2 ponds, where to swim. Soon will be installed the outdoor shower too. For food we have everthing from our family garden, freezer and basement.
What else ...
Our village Rogovka is with good bus connection to nearest bigger cities (bus ticket price is about 2 - 4 EUR from Rogovka to Rēzekne, train ticet From Rīga to Rēzekne is about 10 - 14 EUR, ticket price from Rīga airport to Rīga central train station is about 2 EUR). We can show You a lot of other permaculture places in Latvia, where You can see a lot of good examples about off-grid and organic living in Northern Europe countryside.
A little more information
Internet access
Limited internet access
We have pets
We are smokers
Can host families
Can host digital nomads
We have very good internet connection.
Space for parking camper vans
This host can provide space for campervans.
Can possibly accept pets
We have 2 very old cats, 2 dogs inside aviary and one old, small size doggo freegoing in yard, ducks and hens are in paddock.
How many Workawayers can stay?
More than two
Hours expected
Maximum 4-5 hours, 5 days a week
